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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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